Ashotyan refused, suggesting that the teachers come upstairs to him. Neither side budged and the meeting never took place.
Opponents of the current pension system had taken up positions near the presidential office when Abrahamyan approached and proposed that all parties sit around a table to discuss the matter.
“I would hope that our children will not have to defend their constitutional rights in the streets like we are doing,” Gorgisyan said.
“If the government can’t resolved this issue, then we the people are obliged to continue our struggle,” Hovhannisyan told the crowd, adding that the people’s will is the law and that the government must come to terms with the people.
Hundreds assembled outside the Ministry of Finance in Yerevan today to voice their opposition to the much maligned mandatory pension system, several clauses of which have been declared unconstitutional by Armenia’s Constitutional Court.
While Armenia’s Constitutional Court today declared certain aspects of the mandatory pension system unconstitutional, it noted that the experience registered in fifty countries proves that such a system raises a nation’s stability and living standards.
Minutes ago, Armenia’s Constitutional Court announced that it regards certain aspects of the mandatory pension system launched in January as unconstitutional.
Opponents of the mandatory pension system in Armenia staged a ‘silent’ protest
When asked if the government would enter into dialog with pension opponents, Abrahamyan said that there were indeed oversights in the system that would be corrected through legislation